Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians

367 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Morphometrics is concerned with the study of variations and change in the form (size and shape) of organisms or objects adding a quantitative element to descriptions and thereby facilitating the comparison of different objects and organisms. This volume provides an introduction to morphometrics in a clear and simple way without recourse to complex mathematics and statistics. This introduction is followed by a series of case studies describing the variety of applications of morphometrics from paleontology and evolutionary ecology to archaeological artifacts analysis. This is followed by a presentation of future applications of morphometrics and state of the art software for analyzing and comparing shape.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geowissenschaften Paläontologie
• ISBN: 9783642263705
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2012
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer Berlin
• Herausgegeben von: Ashraf M.T. Elewa